Clipperton Island: Mexico's Forgotten Murder Colony
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Source/Further reading:
Detailed Lore podcast on Clipperton Island: www.lorepodcast.com/episodes/35
Narrative version of the tale: www.damninteresting.com/the-t...
General overview: www.britannica.com/place/Clip...
Clipperton Island timeline: www.globalsecurity.org/milita...
Some extra facts: admin.nationalgeographic.org/p...
General overview, Mexican perspective: www.eluniversal.com.mx/englis...
Synopsis: www.atlasobscura.com/places/c...
A history of guano: www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
Islands claimed under the US Guano Islands Act: www.nationalgeographic.com/ne...
Scurvy: www.atlasobscura.com/articles...
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I have been an OG subscriber of Business Blaze since the beginning and it is AMAZING! I LOVE that channel!!!
Already subscribed (to business channel), just a question, not a complaint, but, is that buttons rubbing the casing in a dryer nearby? Identifying the sound is killing me! P.s. link to Business Blaze not found in description. :)
Your reports would sound more timeless and professional if you would adopt a more classical approach to the way you convey this fascinating stories. We are all tiered of hearing emo/hipster talk and you would have more chances of being the next generation of BBC documentary presenters
Simon should wear a different pair of glasses for each channel so I don't forget which channel I'm on lol
@@valerierodger7700 I only stated that because I like this fellow and I want him to be successful and when necessary for someone it's more helpful to have constructive criticism then blow b.s. down the man's butt and not helping him out
So it took literally 24 hours for this dude to declare himself king and terrorize the remaining women on the island...lovely
It sounded like he did it right after he learned everyone except him and the 3 women died
He probably fantasized about doing that since he thought to remove all weapons and lock them away before doing that
A guy that locks himself away and thinks about raping all day?
He was the first Incel 'nice guy' recorded in history.
And he had the foresight to confiscate all weapons from everyone, aka “gun control” so they couldn’t defend themselves.
Right that’s what i was saying, like what took him so long
@@amadeus962 the governor and other men would have beat his ass
“Sweet, sweet, ass gold” -Simon Whistler, 2020
He has so many amazing quotes haha
His second channel Business Blaze is full of gems like that. Such as "maybe hipsters are here to get scammed"
Haha, I came down to comment that line. It's a good one!
Sweet , sweet , ass gold makes some mighty sweet mota . . . No?
Birds don't have asses.
I love how the britsh just swooped in
"Oh gosh, there is an island, claimed by multiple countries"
"Jolly good, we can add that to our collection"
I loved how that Arnaud idiot saw the Brits packing their chit, and didn't IMMEDIATELY get on the boat..."Tally Ho!"= Pack you stuff, and get on that boat as fast as humanly possible!
It's very British lol. It's like if the US navy sailed in and said "yee haw we're here to protect you from European colonization!"
Aww I see this island it seems very British, yes perfect for tea. *lands on island,* do you have a flag???
They didn't have internet or TV.
@@Unbridled13 wtf are you on about Stacy? 😂
He went straight Lord of the Flies on that Island.
I doubt chaos had anything to do with those horrors... Although scurvy might be Nurgles influence...
@@robinderoos1166 You should've paid more attention in high school. _Lord of the Flies_ is a book.
Also, the whole thing reeks of Slaanesh's influence.
More Like
Lord of the Lillies
@@stevenschnepp576 With a hint of Khorne.
@@stevenschnepp576 you sure it's not tzeentch?
When can we expect a Biographics on Simon Whistler: The man of many TH-cam channels
That would be way too weird, especially for him. This is way worse than asking some narrator to do a face reveal when it's obvious they don't want to show their face in public (otherwise they'd be showing their face without anyone begging).
Probably be Simons last video
Maybe they should get the Epic Voice Guy from Honest Trailers to narrate for Simon Whistler's life.
The whispers are he started out doing some kind of travel blog? It went down hill from there
Yasin and then a Business Blaze of Simon Whistler: How he makes it all work
Fun fact: British sailors were (are?) called Limeys because they used to stock limes on the ships for sailors to suck on to prevent scurvy
I always wondered where that term came from, just always forgot to look it up...
Very true. Lemons have more Vitamin C, but the lime-sellers got a good contract at a lower price.
Not just sailor but all brits.
I've always wondered this! Thank you
And over in Germany another source for vitamin C was used: Sauerkraut.
The results were pretty much the same.
- Fascinating. I didn't find this boring atoll. 👍
Ross Peeler 🤣
Ba bump psshh!
Oh bravo! I hope you were wearing a bikini as you thought this one up!
@@Smegwulf - LOL 👍
I loved this character actors brilliant interpretation of the atoll at top his head.
Man's got more channels than hair
Perhaps he has a lot of leg-hair
He has hair but he's like me it all fell down his face
What about his beard
Not a great feat but you are very correct
That’s not a hard feat in his case...
Now, it's a fueling point for narcotics smugglers.
There's also a side note to the French/Mexican fight over it. Every year, the Mexican Navy goes out and raises a Mexican flag over the island. Later in the year, the French Navy visits, takes down the flag, and replaces it with their own. The fight is still going on!
@Taps fan Hey, at least they're not shooting at each other.
Taps fan it’s probably more like a little running joke or tradition or something , not the countries literally bein petty over it.
Like the "Whiskey War" between Canada and Denmark
@Taps fan I like to pretend it is not done out of pettiness, I have no idea honestly. But in my mind I like to think it is a funny prank between 2 countries in a way.
Especially now with the Corona Virus in full force, I pray human being can just exist peacefully on planet earth. However from what I know, this just can't be done due to greed and other selfishness.
There will always be those blackened hearts who know no empathy, instead seeing the worlds resources including people, as theirs to exploit.
One day maybe ther will be mostly peace.
@Taps fan the French shouldn't even be there.
I laughed when Arnaud was told Mexico is on fire and ww1 just started, imagine his shock like, "wtf???"
“Shit. This is fine. We fine here.”
"well, things couldn't get any worse....Right?????"
As a Mexican I really appreciate every time Porfirio Díaz is featured in one of your videos. Usually he's idealised by right-wing Mexicans or demonised by those on the left-wing. Mexican Napoleon III fits better and portraits how despotic and pretentious yet ridiculous his regime actually should have been.
Eliud C. Delgado That is very interesting, at least to me😸. Thank you for sharing that.
Completely agree with you hermano
Sounds very Trumpian.
@@outlawJosieFox are all lefties npc's like you lol how is trump anything like this man
It belongs to France 🇫🇷
Simon you should look at the story of the Dutch ship Batavia, wrecked off the west coast of Australia in the 17th century near what is now known as Beacon Island.
The story of the Batavia makes what happened on Clipperton Island (as tragic as that story was) look like a holiday camp.
Stranded sailors descending into barbary seems a common enough problem to have become a literary trope . The Bounty mutineers seem to be a famous real life example . Clipperton Island a less famous one .
I'd appreciate it if u didn't word it like that
Both the Clipperton colonists and the sailors of the Batavia suffered
There's no sense in saying "one made the other seem bright and sunny"
The fact that he was able to enunciate "Weird zebra sex mask" perfectly- and twice in a row at that- impresses me greatly.
This guy basically runs every TH-cam channel.
Hes an actor for these channela not the owner
saso tadic he owns some of them and is parntner on most where hes on.
Simon Tube
When, when, WHEN do we get the Simon Whistler bio video???
Can’t wait for the video of the Africans that got rich off selling their own people into slavery or the Spanish pretty much decimating the southern continent of America
Simon creates 45% of all youtube content
FACTS
You may be confusing "Host" AKA guy reading script with author/producer/editor
I thought it would be much higher
We wish!
*narrates 45% of all youtube content
I majored in foreign policy in México and, no joke, we studied the crap out of this case un my International Law class.
I visited Clipperton Island way back in 1986 as part of the crew on the NOAA Ship David Starr Jordan, It's exactly as described, especially the millions of crabs. I saw only a few scattered Palm trees and can't imagine how anyone could live in this island.
Amazing that Hollyweird hasn’t opted this story as a movie.
would be either too short, or too dark
Hromovlad1 Hollyweird has made movies about shorter and darker subjects.
let's hope they never do, they wouldn't do it justice
I’d like to make this a movie one day
@@baydenjones2897 i will make it before you.
You had me at “murder colony”
I love these videos. They're educational, well produced, and for some reason they always make me think "What if Simon isn't actually British, but just uses an accent because it makes narration that much cooler?".
8:11 "A 4th and final nation decided to get involved"
*it's gonna be the Brits isn't it*
And that was the British
*How did I know that was coming*
The really got around.
Walpole.
Even now, the sun still doesn't set on the British empire
@@FireboltPrime oh it's well after setting my friend. Thank God
@@The_Republic_of_Ireland I meant as in all the scattered islands and territories they still have
Morris M. + Simon Whistler = pure gold.
Written like a short horror story but with a Whedonesque style of humor, all narrated beautifully. Please never stop this collaboration.
"Guano bowls! Collect a whole set!" - Ace Ventura
Holy shit, I thought the tall dude was going to be nice and save them all! How wrong I was..
I thought it was going to be worse with him eating the kids or smthn
Mexico was all like : "Hey! That's our bird poo!!" Lolz
Dreameroutthere
Bat poop
“ARSE GOLD” 😂
"Sweet, sweet Arse Gold." Dude... I just fired Coco Pops outta my nose!
Damn , Im Mexican and I dont know about this site
Because you don't look at your map often.
@@nathanlong8295 how am I supposed to find an island that its recognised as an overseas French territory that doesn't border in any way with Mexican territory or its EEA in a map of México?
As a French I did know about this weird speck of sand, yet nothing about its history. But don't blame yourself Gustavo, I'm sure a lot of French know nothing about most of their oversea territories. There's so many of them, which makes me feel super weird, like my country is the last remaining colonial empire, but don't want to admit it.
@@ffffff52 I guess he didn't think of that lmfao I'd be embarrassed if I said that and got that reply
Same.
What about a geographics on Silimodo island in South Korea that had a camp set up for a death squad tasked with killing Kim il Sung? They ended up escaping the island as they were abused constantly and their assassination mission cancelled, a bus full of them in Seoul was involved in a shootout with grenades, some of them killed themselves then and there. 6 survived and were all tortured and executed. I think they were essentially not allowed to leave the camp on the island, when the mission was cancelled they had a mutiny.
This new Animal Crossing sounds weird but I'll play it...
animal crossing: mining sum bird shit
These three women “STOOD STRONG 💪🏽 and achieved their goal.....they survived with the children . Abuse of power continues today sadly. Thank you for this glimpse of history. I was aware of the island but totally shocked with it’s depraved history.
This has all the makings of a Great Horror Movie 🍿
1:55 - Chapter 1 - The secret island
5:25 - Chapter 2 - The battle for bird poop
8:55 - Chapter 3 - Building the colony
11:40 - Chapter 4 - Viva la revolucion
15:05 - Chapter 5 - Rise of a king
18:40 - Chapter 6 - Death of a kingdom
Age of guano... my new band name. Thank u.
“Snidely Whiplash” now that’s a name I haven’t heard in a while!
"To start shoveling that sweet sweet ass-gold." Whoever your writer was for this episode they deserve a raise for that quote alone.
Loved the image of Napoleon saying "Merde !"
I can't imagine the horror of those women and children exposed to that barbarian. Any man in that situation would have a wonderful opportunity to be a great gentleman of the community.
This is crazy, my great great great etc.. grandfather was John Clipperton. I knew there was an island with my surname but I had no idea all of this happened, fascinating.
Name checks out
You need to ride my plank and shiver my timber’s.
Oh bs
I periodically beg for an Alexander von Humbolt video on Biographics, please please please do one for him! He is one of the most amazing people that the modern public hasn't heard of.
He established man-made climate change in the 1800s, layed the ground work for modern meteorology, created biogeography, and more. He spent a total of ~6 non-consecutive months in Cuba, but is considered a national hero there for cataloguing all the indigenous wildlife and making recommendations that revolutionized their agriculture. He is also considered to be the last person to possess the totality of known human knowledge for his time, the last true polymath.
If you know so much abouthim, why do you even want a video to be done??
Lots of people know about him
Pre Darwin, bates, and Wallace
Last polymath? I think John von Neumann lived after him lol
@Gelmir Curufin got bock ?
Hi Simon! I love your videos on both biographics and geographics. This story of a forgotten atoll is very similar to the island where I grew up. There’s an atoll that is part of the marshal islands where they test out misiles. It’s called Kwajalein. While I left too early in my life to know the full history. I found out it used to be owned by the Japanese in ww2. Maybe you could do a video on it! 😄
Good idea! I also think he could do a similar one on the people of Bikini Atoll and what happened to them.
Absolutely fascinating! Still blood curdling to see how truly morbid and pathetic some humans can be to prey on defenceless people rather than help
Business Blaze is great, any fans of Simon, and his various channels, should definitely give it a shot. Even those who aren't extremely 'business oriented' can still most certainly enjoy the channel.
It's a good 'ol time.
When simon advertises simon you know the conglomerate is growing
I hold the belief that Simon is one of three identical triplets- all named Simon. How could only one of him narrate so many videos?
No, it's just incredibly cringy.
Now that was a fantastic script, especially how you concluded with what Clipperton Island represents today, though only to be known to a very small few. Humanity and our persistance through both terrible things we'd do to eachother, and overcoming the most awful conditions will never cease to amaze me. People scare me straight, but people give me hope too. Who will you be?
I absolutely love Business Blaze. It's 100% my favorite "Random Thing" youtube channel so I really hope it keeps growing!
Jesus Simon, this is one of the most hard hitting videos you’ve produced. I applaud you and the rest of your team!
You actually managed to work in a “Snidely Whiplash” reference lol, good job.
Like how Simons style has evolved fro his earlier stuff! looks more sophisticated.
“Sweet, sweet, ass gold”
nico byrne it's the haircut
Yep, he looks so dapper and intellectual as he teaches us about "Arse Gold", lol. Don't get me wrong tho, I'm completely on board with this!
Business Blaze Simon Whistler is like the astranged cousin to Geographics' more bald Vsauce Michael.
the r/iamverysmart version
. . .”astranged”? 🤦♂️
Astringently strangelfied...ya use gloves...and wipe wit alcohol...
astranged? didnr vsauce take a bite out of a toilet donut?
*estranged
Clipperton Island became some what relevant after United Nations Convention on Law of the Sea came into force. The convention introduced the concept of exclusive economic zone that grants a state exclusive resource exploration rights in the area extending 200 nautical miles from
low water mark of the coast of a teritorry. Though I have not researched if any valuable resources (including fishes) are present, it definitely has some use for France.
I love how Simon has a yt channel for every different subject he loves. It’s honestly great
Thank you Simon!!!! This his part of my Family History
When I come onto TH-cam and see there is a new Geographics, Biographics or Top Tenz video I'm absolutely stoked. But seeing a video with murder in the title, I go and make popcorn. I know it's gonna be good. Wish I could subscribe twice!
Simon's contrast between Geographics and Business Blaze is just.... Amazing
"He died of scurvy."
Fitting.
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How about Oak Island, Canada (The money pit)? Great work guys!
That would be pretty fascinating.
I wish you had been my history teacher when I was in school, I may have actually learned something! I could listen to your videos all day. Thank you, now I have something to do during the shut down and the riots! (I mean that in a good way!)
Perhaps your best video yet. I've been fascinated by this place for years, finding only random facts here and there, but this tale is simply amazing. Thank you!
He puts so much work into his channels it’s amazing some TV networks are not this well put together.
PS...I've been watching your shows since you used yo do them in your apartment. Your production studio looks great and it's nice to see you growing so much.
Business Blaze: where Simmon makes a serious approach to comedy.
I still love all the other TH-cam stuff you do!
Business Blaze being more relaxed and freestyle is the understatement of the year, Simon.
Dear Simon, I thoroughly enjoyed this video. One of your best. I read a novel about the colony some time ago. You really did justice to it.
So let's be real here.
Simon is a villain, right? He's slowly taking over TH-cam. Who here will follow him and his wicked deeds as I will?
I for one praise our new, bearded overlord!
I concur
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Don't blame me I voted for Carl Smallwood .
God damn I love these weird islands in the pacific.
That has to be the most interesting and the most utterly horrific story ive ever listened to....thank you so much Simon !
As always, thank you for subjects which today I completely love. Unfortunately during my high school years, I loathed. Here’s to hoping TH-cam can captivate those history loathing teens I once was! Great video!
Was about to fast forward through the promotion at the beginning until I saw the zebra mask and I realized what a mistake I had almost made. Thank goodness I didn't miss such a majestic moment. P.s. I am already subscribed to business blaze
Love all your videos on each of your channels! Really enjoy the content you put out and look forward to listening to each either while I'm doing work or driving home.
Simon,Simon, Simon I can't get enough of your incredible channels!!!!
Thank you ❤️❤️❤️
Love these videos, I cannot stop binge watching at work! Only during lunch of course...
Listening to all the talk of guano, I am invariably reminded of the Nauru Tower in Honolulu, which I refer to now as the Tower That Poop Built.
Simon has a wide range of animal sex masks
Danny, I don’t want to know how you know that because it would probably give me nightmares. If you are the Danny that writes scripts you need to find ways to include animal sex masks in more scripts...just to mess with Simon.
Wait wha...
@@muffin1119 in the words of Jules "Now that's some fucked up repugnant shit!"
Are you the legendary Danny as in Danny the script writer? If so SWEET!
@@Kieran_Martin Nope, sorry!
I love all your channels Simone! You provide tons of entertainment and knowledge.
Honest ad for The Blaze. Good man.
Hardly a "murder colony" when only one dude got murdered.
Alvarez murdered two women, why this wasn't mentioned I don't know.
Lol
Maybe it wasn't super murderous but the governor did commit like 90 cases of manslaughter with his terrible decision making lol
This is nothing, I’m sure there was a cannibal island with Russian prisoners and with it being Russian it would of been one cold island.
@@christopherpettersson1626 Yes. It's literally one of the videos mentioned in this one.
This is the plot to a SciFi movie that hasn’t been made yet
👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Another awesome adventure with Simon!! Loved it!
This would make an incredible historical horror movie/novel
Simon, you and your team do a great job of bringing historical and other knowledge that we'd otherwise never know about. Keep up the good work. Some of it is really gruesome but important to know: Such as Nazinsky Island.
I think it's fair to say that the kingdom was in ruins even before being established...
It took me for ever to actually watch the video. I kept rewinding the advertisement which plays before this video. The video of Clipperton Island is definitely interesting. Thanks Simon. 👍
This is one of my favorite episodes. Thanks
It is know for sport fishing from the long range fishing fleets either out of San Diego or when the fleet moves south to Los Cabos.
I think Arnaud might have declined the American's offer simply because he didn't believe them. After all, they had tried to lay claim to the island before and had just invaded Veracruz so maybe he thought it was a ploy to get them off the Island.
"Sweet sweet ass gold" is the greatest phrase he's ever said 😂
Only learned of this island because I was looking at Pacific storm systems on my weather app.
Very interesting, thanks for the upload!
lmao if I'm on an Island with a super buff dude and he declares himself King ima make sure he doesn't wake up the next morning
Right??!! An island fulls of sharp rocks!!!!............yeah mr.king will never see the morning.............
dat Pianoguy You're not three women trying to keep yourselves and a bunch of children alive after he locked all the weapons away and threatened to mutilate anyone who defied him. Improvising could have left those children at the mercy of someone who was clearly not a good man.
@@CanItAlready 3 malnutritioned women*
They probably wouldn't even be able to lift a decent sized rock..
@T REX No, they were scared. Scared of making a move that would make everything even worse for them. Imagine getting threats of mutilation while also being sexually assaulted and beaten by a big buff guy.. I'm glad they managed to survive though, but the pain from the whole experience must have followed them through their whole lives..
T REX I disagree. I think the fact that they did finally take him down is evidence that they weren't stupid. They were just waiting for the right opportunity.
It isn’t Mexico’s anymore. France was all like “I want this uninhabited island, thousands and thousands of miles away from my borders” and pretty much made Mexico give it up. France is so petty sometimes.
Indochina showed them whats what
If you actually watched the video they go over this early on, then at the end of the video outline how the final arbitration went to the Vatican, who passed it on to Italy after a decade, who eventually ruled in favour of France.
@@--enyo-- but nobody cares. Isla de la Pasión Is Mexican in practice... And Chinese, Chinese fish around too.
Great to see a piece on Clipperton atoll. Captain John Clipperton was a distant ancestor of mine. He was indeed a Privateer rather than a Pirate. As far as I knew it was unlikely he ever landed on the atoll.
Thank you sooo much for videos. They’re very informative and interesting. I’m sure you’ll be getting a lot more viewers in the coming months because of the Coronavirus lockdowns, so keep up the good work, we’re going to need all the entertainment and distraction from our situation available.
You realize of course that only old people like me laughed at the Snidely Whiplash reference. 😆
🤣📺Dudley Doright?📺🤣
Tamara Faurot .....Yes... LMAO !
Tamara Faurot
I got, but it wasn’t funny.
Damn that was good.
Crazy story.
Your background is awesome!! Also love the tones of your videos.
Best video you've done so far, Simon. Capital, old boy! 👍
Now we need a channel run by Simon that is focused on animals
And he has to wear the Zebra Mask in every video!
That moment when you realize in the book Doctor No, he sold bird guano instead of working for SPECTRE
I’ve watched so many of Simon’s videos and am used to his humor, and that “ass gold” line made me spit out my drink lol